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2013-14
Mixed media
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Untitled, 2013-14Acrylic on canvas
19.7×12.7 cm
Untitled, 2013-14Digital print
143 x 104 cm
Untitled, 2013-14Engraving on stone
55 x 69 x 10 cm
Untitled, 2013-14Digital photograph sliced and partially painted
48 x 160 cm
Untitled, 2013-14Digital print
33 x 24 cm
Untitled, 2013-14Digital photograph with abrasions
39 x 56.7 cm each
Untitled, 2013-14Digital prints, drawing with pencil
71.x53.5 cm, 33 x 24 cm, 18 x 24 cm text frame
Untitled, 2013-14Tracing with pencil
33 x 24 cm each, 18 x 24 cm text frame
Untitled, 2013-14Performance
Untitled, 2013-14Video projection with sound & text frame
Untitled, 2013-14Video projection with sound
6:12 min loop, 29 x 51 cm
The sound of volleyball game has been replaced with the sounds of birds and crickets from the rice fields in the borderlands
Untitled, 2013-14Digital photograph with cut out, text frame
49 x 42 cm, 33 x 24 cm text frame
In September 1958, when Nehru met Noon, the two Prime Ministers agreed to an exchange of enclaves
‘There lives a person who was picked up by the authorities when he was working in New Delhi and deported to Bangladesh, and he had to bribe his way across, to return to his home here in the Bangladeshi enclave’
Border Post M.E.
Untitled, 2013-14Digital photograph with cut out, text frame
49 x 42 cm, 33 x 24 cm text frame
Untitled, 2013-14Digital photograph with incision, text frame
49 x 42 cm, 33 x 24 cm text frame
Untitled, 2013-14, 2015Drawing with Phensedyl – codeine based cough syrup, digital photograph with pencil markings, text frame
41.5 x 59.3 cm each, 18 x 24 cm text frame, digital photograph
Drawings made with Pensedyl, codeine based cough syrup, illegal in Bangladesh and legal in India
Two Jats from Haryana who supply daily wages workers at construction sites in New Delhi, in the home of local activist to buy land at four times its value in the enclaves just before the enclave census is to be undertaken
The guard at border post at the Tin Bigha Corridor firmly says only 30 cows are officially authorized to cross over at this unique entry-exit point on Mondays and Thursdays. Hundreds and hundreds of cows stand grazing in the fields at the border.
On the Avadh – Assam passenger train, a banker on his way to an official weekend retreat, enthusiastically says that several banks are opening up branches in the border areas due to great cash flow.
India is building a fence which is 150 yards inside the zero line. The price of this strip of land, between the fence and zero line,is three times more, than the land inside the fence. It seems to require several kilograms more manure than the land inside and cattle taken for grazing here, crossing the Border Security Force post, is often reported missing at the local police station
Four Men, Five Women and Eight children nabbed at the border carrying 2,34,930 Bangladeshi Taka, 2007 Indian Rupees, a few Bhutan currency, two mobile phones and seventeen compact discs
Prior to the elections, it is heard, a newspaper published that enclave dwellers, if allowed to vote, can influence the final poll outcome
2% people registered to move across after the official swap
Application submitted for inclusion in census
